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Is this deadly force bill a step in the right direction?

Originally aired: Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Category: News

A billed filed in Olympia would potentially make it easier to charge police for unjustified use of deadly force.
If approved, police would have to have "a reasonable belief of an imminent threat of death or serious harm to the officer or a third party and the deadly force is necessary to prevent death or serious physical harm."